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                                                                                     ARABIC PROVERBS                          POLICE





                                                                                   By Civilian/ Fatimah Seif Al Shamesy







                                                                              shout and do
                                        You are free from danger, shout and do
                                      You are free from danger
                                                                            ,
                                                        whatever you like
                                                      whate
                                                                       ou like
                                                                 er y
                                                               v
                                This is an idiom when someone can do something he needs. Tarfa bin Al-Abd Al-Shaer who is the
                                first one to say that, when he was with his uncle on a journey while he was a boy, and they stayed
                                near water. Then, he set a trap for the birds; he waited throughout the day and did not catch
                                anything.
                                Then he carried his trap and returned to his uncle, on their way, they passed from that place
                                where he had set his trap, he saw the birds picking up the grains that had been scattered for them,
                                so he said:

                                What a long-lived bird                                                 you are free, shout and do what you like
                                Eat whatever you want to eat                                     the hunter is gone, so be happy
                                The trap has been raised, so what do you warn      You must be caught one day.. be patient






















                                                                                         l remain in
                                                                       no trees wil
                                               one cuts a tree,
                                          ery
                                         v
                                      If everyone cuts a tree, no trees will remain in
                                    If e
                                                                            y
                                                                 the valley
                                                               the val
                                                                         le
                                       If everyone had his ax and went to chop the wood, there would
                                        not be in the woods one tree left. Therefore, every job has a
                                        professional person for it and every crafts have a person to
                                                              perform it well!!













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